By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 4 June 1999

the best

    please
   let me
     explain
    it's like
      this
       see
     I saw
       you
      and knew
       it took
       one second
     maybe less
      and I
    was utterly
       convinced
    and if
     that seems
       shallow
    I apologize
    but here's
    the catch
    you really
       weren't
     my type
   at all
   you weren't
     big and blonde
     with blue eyes
    that blew me
     to bits
     so it
    wasn't lust
   I know
   or infatuation
    it wasn't like
        I was fourteen
      and you were
     a Backstreet Boy
  but what it was
   and what I mean
        to say
           is
    I saw you
    your spirit shining
         through
and the light
      that radiated
     made me approach you
       and hope
         for
     the best